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Love In Action

As we were planning out the weekly content for this month, based around bravery, Megan and I were brainstorming all the places women have to practice courage. As I was thinking through all of the areas of my life that require courage, “parenting” quickly bubbled to the top. It’s funny, because when the boys were younger, parenting required more endurance. Now that they’re entering their teenage years, I’m learning that love in parenting requires huge amounts of courage.

We took this picture at the beach in 2016.

The rest of the family had to leave but that year, I had a little more space in my schedule, and the boys really wanted to stay longer. So the three of us rented a tiny little car and cheap little (upstairs) motel room across the street from the water at The Sunshine Inn. We decided we would go on an “adventure”. As an Enneagram …

Y’all, this pink heart-shaped box of Old Fashioned sugar cookies is currently on display at The Cookie Rack. Everytime I walk in there, I want to buy it for myself. I want to sit down with it and just relish in all its goodness. I love that it combines the traditional “box of chocolates” idea with this beautiful pink box and the white satin ribbon.

It’s like The Cookie Rack’s Valentine take on “The Little Blue Box”.

I love it because it’s simple, and beautiful without the giant price tag. It has me thinking about all the obligatory, and costly, gift giving that happens on Valentine’s Day. When all the spouses feel pressured to buy all the expensive things, because of a consumer-driven holiday designed to pressure them to buy all the things, in an effort to prove the extent of their love” . . . it just doesn’t feel authentic. It feels like …

On Monday, this photo came flying in like a blast from the past. My friend Courtney was apparently archiving some old photos to digital format and paused long enough to send me on this trip down memory lane. It’s funny how photos remind you of moments you’d likely never think of again, but as soon as I saw it, I remember that night like it was yesterday. . It was Halloween 2007 and we were (OBVIOUSLY) expecting Oaks to arrive any day. Outside of the fact that our little golfer doesn’t look very happy to be there, we were doing pretty good. How crazy is it that I remember that one of my biggest challenges at that time was blow drying my hair? (Oh, how life has changed!) It was exhausting. My arms were already tired from carrying that 15 month old chunky monkey around and by the time I finished, my …

These two don’t look like anyone you’d want to meet in a dark alley. On a dance floor, yes! But anywhere else, you’d surely go running for the hills. This is my friend Regan Frizelle, standing with me at our HeartStories GNO 1st Birthday Bash, which we hosted 80’s Style with the help of Big D Party Rentals. The entire party was an invite for the ladies to get dressed up in their best/worst eighties garb, let their hair down, and have a great time. I was not at all surprised when this beautiful lady showed up rocking stirrup pants and a painted units top, complete with a lovely perm-on-top/straight-on-bottom mullet. It took courage.

And Regan has it, in spades.

But it’s not just the kind of courage you need to take a deep breath and jump off the high dive the first time. Regan practices a very different kind of courage consistently. …

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” I’ve always loved this quote by Hunter Thomspon.

And oh, how I still do.

But this year, after rounding the curve of forty, while building a business and a house, while both kids are entering the puberty years, it sort of feels like the “thoroughly used up and worn out” part came earlier than the skidding in broadside in a cloud of smoke with a joy ride proclamation!

My friend Wendi gathers this lovely group of women once a quarter, with the sole purpose of supporting, connecting and inspiring one another. It’s the AC3 group and if you’ve been around here long, you’ve met them before. We met last Thursday …

When I met Beth, our event designer with Joyful Day, at The Cookie Rack on Thursday, we had a good belly laugh with this sign. We met to work through the details in planning the upcoming BraveHearted Cookie GNO with our Featured Guest, Christie Halverson, the owner of the bakery. Before we parted ways, we knew we must take a picture with this sign. In part, because it’s such a hilarious and creative way for Christie to brand her store. But also because we’ve now both had our sons in the store with us which provided the opportunity (for me, at least) to explain the way this phrase has been so poorly used and in contrast, what a rack actually means. And mostly, that they should NEVER say it!